Fugitive
"Fugitive" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I was on the alert for a fugitive criminal.
The fugitive surfaced in a small town fifty miles from here but then disappeared again.
The fugitive made a run for the border.
The high court decided to try the fugitive warlord in abstentia.
A picture of the fugitive was plastered all over the newspapers.
Tom is a fugitive.
Why did Kissinger flee Paris and make himself a fugitive from the French law?
The fugitive is armed and dangerous.
The fugitive crossed the river.
Tom was caught harboring a fugitive.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.
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